AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 226V

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core Ultra 5 226V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 226V beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 226V has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 226V. Both the Ryzen 5 4600U and Core Ultra 5 226V have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 226V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 226V has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4600U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.